PaintCare
Lauren Scher is an accomplished program manager with extensive experience in managing stakeholder communications and operations within the environmental and academic sectors. Currently serving as the Oregon and Washington Program Manager at PaintCare since May 2017, Lauren Scher focuses on establishing paint drop-off sites in collaboration with retail stores and municipal programs. Prior to this role, Lauren Scher worked at Portland State University from May 2014 to May 2017, where responsibilities included managing proposal preparations for federal and non-federal sponsored projects and providing high-level administrative support in development operations. Previous positions at Tiffany & Company and Iridesse Pearls involved operations management, customer relations, and financial coordination. Lauren Scher holds an MPA from Baruch College and is pursuing post-baccalaureate studies in Computer Science at Portland State University.
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PaintCare
PaintCare Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, represents paint manufacturers (paint producers) to plan and operate paint stewardship programs in U.S. states and jurisdictions that pass paint stewardship laws. PaintCare is a program of the American Coatings Association (ACA) a membership-based trade association of the paint manufacturing industry. Working through the Paint Producer Stewardship Initiative (PPSI) facilitated by the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), ACA supported the passage of the nation’s first paint stewardship law in Oregon and established PaintCare in 2009. Since then, PaintCare has launched programs across the country following the passage of similar laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, and is developing a program for Illinois. In states where PaintCare operates, we encourage households and businesses to take their unwanted, leftover paint to a PaintCare drop-off site. Most locations are paint retailers, which are convenient locations open year-round and seven days a week. Across the eleven PaintCare programs, there are more than 2,400 drop-off sites, most of which are paint retailers.